Guest Posted January 19, 2014 Share Posted January 19, 2014 Made 3 meetings this week....Hit the 4 month mark which is cool....Was tempted to drink this week when I was around a friend who was having a glass of wine....But it was pretty easy to let the thought go and not drink...Before when I tried to stop drinking these are the times I would give in and drink...And start the cycle of insanity all over again...While my demoms rejoiced... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 19, 2014 Share Posted January 19, 2014 * demons Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seven77 Posted January 20, 2014 Share Posted January 20, 2014 (edited) sorry...couldn't resist: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n96OJ7KYmxs Edited January 20, 2014 by Seven77 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tab'le De'Bah-Rye Posted January 20, 2014 Share Posted January 20, 2014 http://youtu.be/m_PNunWGzI0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 23, 2014 Share Posted January 23, 2014 (edited) Yesterdays meeting was a open meeting with a raffle ticket...They draw your number you share...Mine didn't get drawn...This is a 7 am meeting and there is a guy there who was in prison for 25 years...He's intense everytime he shares...Sometimes its a lot to handle at that hour in the morning but its cool...That's what aa is about...Letting people vent...He knows Mike Tyson and has Mike speaking at an upcoming meeting...Should be interesting................Went to a meeting this morning also after Confession and the gym....It was a 10 am meeting....Had a guest speaker and it was nice listening to him...Nice guy who got sober in 1976 5 years before I was even born....At this meeting was a lady I have seen before....Her name is Kristin....She looks just like my old friend Kristi who was the reason I joined aa...She was the friend that I did really wrong the last night I was wasted...I threw our friendship away that night and showed her so much hate and disrespect...She hasn't talked to me since then and I lost a friendship that meant a lot to me and still feel the pain from it...But ya this Kristin lady looks just like my old friend Kristi except a little older....Its weird...Anyhow we held hands today durning the Our Father at the end of the meeting... Edited January 23, 2014 by Guest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 23, 2014 Share Posted January 23, 2014 Went to the noon meeting today...Guest speaker...Older guy...Good share...Only 8 months sober....Hope we both make it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnneLine Posted February 8, 2014 Share Posted February 8, 2014 Hey Josh, how are you doing? It's been a while since you said hi to us. Still praying for you & would love to hear from you..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tab'le De'Bah-Rye Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 sept 22 2013 is my quit day, so how ever many days sober now. I had a kind of bust about 3 and a half weeks ago, i used drugs after not using drugs for about a year. But aye alleluia it was only a lapse and not a relapse, a lapse is a one off and a relapse is an ongoing thing. After my bust my meetings and attendance at holy mass has dropped right off. Today i went to my home group which i had only attended once since the bust and bought a book called 'living sober' and as had suspected there is an alcoholic and a problem drinker both phrases are coined on the 1st page of the 'living sober' book, and i identify as a problem drinker and not an alcoholic which someone whom identifies as being an alcoholic was trying to convince me otherwise, and again for all those interested i make clear the tradition of a.a. that says " the only requirement for membership is the desire to stop drinking alcohol", but i love him and i think he understands now or has given up trying to convince me otherwise. Big reminder for me from a long time sober person today that i must continue to go to meetings, very important. Living sober so far is a great book i read it till my mind and eyes where tired and ai haven't been able to read like that for 3 or so years, even holy scripture which i love. Just for today i'm good, went to holy mass, went to a meeting and had a little bit of trauma late in the day in that i was late to have my psyche meds and felt like drinking or drugging or gambling more than i should, allleuia that i did none of these and am now sitting at home typing on phatmass and had my meds. Okay God bless. onward christian souls. (including the black and grey sheep, that hope to be white sheep eventually.) Jesus iz LORD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 18, 2014 Share Posted February 18, 2014 (edited) So I reached 5 months without a drink the other day. Since my last post I've attended a lot of meetings. I was going ever day for a stretch there but got burnt out. Haven't been to a meeting in a week. Will pry go to one tommorow. Honestly surprised I haven't had a drink in this long. Pretty much a miracle. Things are going really well for me and more then once I've wanted to have a couple beers but I didnt. I don't think that's a good thing I didn't have some drinks. An adult should be able to enjoy some drinks and chill out from this insane world. But I know for a fact God wants it this way (me not drinking at all) and He has blessed me huge in the last 5 months to confirm this to me. And the truth is it will be hard enough for me to escape hell sober and most likely impossible drunk. Edited February 18, 2014 by Guest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnneLine Posted February 18, 2014 Share Posted February 18, 2014 5 months is something to celebrate! :paco2: :winner: :winner: :winner: :winner: :winner: :cake: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luigi Posted February 18, 2014 Share Posted February 18, 2014 "Pretty much a miracle." That's what AA is about. And that about says it all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 28, 2014 Share Posted February 28, 2014 (edited) "Pretty much a miracle." That's what AA is about. And that about says it all. Yes it pretty much has been a miracle... God removed the desire to drink completely. ..I know a skeptic will say look at all the people who haven't been able to stop...And I'm not sure how I would respond to that...I know with me I asked God with every fiber in me to help me stop drinking and so far it's worked...In the past when I tried to stop I never depended on God completely to stop and I always failed...I actually haven't been to a meeting in 19 days...I need to start hitting a few...At this point I don't feel the need to attend them to not drink...Although I think it would be a mistake to cut them out completely. .. I was watching this atheist vs believer debate on you tube...It was a show from nightline and Sam Harris was on there and this other atheist and they were debating a couple believers...The believers were actually new age in their beliefs so there was some stuff I didn't like...Anyhow at the end of the debate the one atheist said flat out that it appears almost without question that we aren't here by chance...That there appears to be a deeper meaning to things and it's almost impossible for everything to have worked out the way it did for life to come about and it just be random chance...Yet he isn't and pry never will be ready to give this credit to God let alone the Christian God unless he can see feel and touch him...Yet he willingly admits that there seems to be an intelligence behind creation...And he's right its the same intelligence that befriended me and helped me stop drinking when I thought it was impossible to do... Edited February 28, 2014 by Guest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 19, 2014 Share Posted March 19, 2014 6 months... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luigi Posted March 19, 2014 Share Posted March 19, 2014 6 months... Congratulations! You state it, but how you feel about it? Proud? Surprised? Happy? Do you get a coin or anything for six months? I remember my brother getting one for 25 years, and my father getting one for 40 years. I guess it was at the same event. I didn't go, but they showed them to me afterward. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnneLine Posted March 19, 2014 Share Posted March 19, 2014 Six months... That's fantastic, Josh!!!! :winner: :winner: :winner: :winner: :winner: :winner: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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